Vision of Ireland | 1821 Census: Abstract of answers

1821 Census of Ireland, Abstracts of the Answers and Returns Made pursuant to an Act of the United Parliament, passed in the 55th Year of the Reign of His Late Majesty George the Third, Intituled, "An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Ireland, and for ascertaining the Increase or "Diminution thereof.": Preliminary Observations. Enumeration Abstract. Appendix., Table [1] : " Abstract of Answers and Returns under the Population Act of Ireland:- 1821".

Show top level table	Slane Upper	Show Meath IrlC table

Click on the unit name for its home page If appears click for more detailed statistics	Houses				Persons			Occupations				Schools
	Inhabited. [1]	Families. [2]	Uninhabited. [3]	Building. [4]	Males. [5]	Females. [6]	Total of Persons. [7]	No. of Persons chiefly employed in Agriculture. [8]	No. of Persons chiefly employed in Trade, Manufactures, and Handicraft. [9]	No. of all other Persons occupied and not comprised in the two preceding Classes. [10]	Total Number of Persons occupied. [11]	Pupils
	Inhabited. [1]	Families. [2]	Uninhabited. [3]	Building. [4]	Males. [5]	Females. [6]	Total of Persons. [7]	No. of Persons chiefly employed in Agriculture. [8]			Total Number of Persons occupied. [11]	Males. [12]	Females. [13]	Total. [14]
Slane Upper IrlBarony Total	1,307	1,416	58	2	3,782	3,751	7,533	1,095	1,856	525	3,476	199	90	289
Collon IrlPar	451	510	7	4	1,337	1,391	2,728	365	470	287	1,122	138	86	224
Tullyallen IrlPar	773	816	29	2	1,910	2,054	3,964	517	691	197	1,405	110	61	171
Rathkenny IrlPar	328	339	7	2	846	892	1,738	255	78	96	429	0	0	0
Slane IrlPar	412	477	13	0	1,209	1,215	2,424	308	634	186	1,128	14	36	50
Gernonstown IrlPar	137	143	8	1	409	389	798	135	164	58	357	20	6	26
Stackallan IrlPar	164	175	7	0	470	477	947	144	231	64	439	28	9	37
Dowth IrlPar	60	61	4	1	173	164	337	50	73	42	165	0	0	0
Monknewtown IrlPar	121	122	5	0	366	346	712	119	159	45	323	30	20	50
Grangegeeth IrlPar	294	311	13	0	800	785	1,585	234	428	77	739	76	13	89
Mellifont IrlPar	119	127	8	0	355	375	730	105	167	53	325	31	6	37

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Slane Upper IrlBarony:

Rate	Date
Houses under Construction as Percentage of All Houses	1821
Percentage of persons entitled to voluntary schooling attending	1821
Percent in Agriculture	1821

Comments:

1	Our transcription of this table for Baronies and Parishes is currently limited to the Province of Ulster.
2	Parishes were often divided between different Baronies, and Baronies were sometimes divided between different Counties, but this reconstruction always lists the totals for whole Parishes or Baronies. The original table also sometimes lists separate counts for 'Towns' and the remainders of Parishes, but here again we list only Parish totals.

This website does not try to provide an exact replica of the original printed census tables, which often had thousands of rows and far more columns than will fit on our web pages. Instead, we let you drill down from national totals to the most detailed data available. The column headings are those that appeared in the original printed report. The numbers presented here, which are the same ones we use to create statistical maps and graphs, come from the census table and have usually been carefully checked.

The system can only hold statistics for units listed in our administrative gazetteer, so some rows from the original table may be missing. Sometimes big low-level units, like urban parishes, were divided between more than one higher-level units, like Registration sub-Districts. This is why some pages will give a higher figure for a lower-level unit: it covers the whole of the lower-level unit, not just the part within the current higher-level unit.